Taster's Cherce

My favorite part of the Passover seder is when you get to eat the bitter herbs—horseradish on a piece on Matzoh. Sure to clear any congestion, if you do it right. Here’s two of my cousins and me last night, loading up:

[2] You wouldn't like horseradish. Besides its intense spiciness it has very little taste.

I think it must be the spiciest food that isn't a capsicum pepper. What else did they use in Europe and Asia before Columbus? -- black pepper, garlic, mustard. Horseradish brings more tears than any of those.

Yeah, you are right, it's just good for a dare, to knock the tears out of your face, but it isn't as tasty as some other hot food. The red stuff is red cause you add a little beet juice to it. Alarmis, I know THAT is making your mouth water....LOL

[5] i actually love spicy food. can you do the vindaloo? i dig it sometimes!

[6] ooh, btw, it's "thelarmis" like "thelonious", not " the (a)larmis". i know that's gotten confusing here over the years. i'll explain to you the stage name bestowed on me someday (not that it's interesting...)... : )

btw, juan miranda just smoked a double and curtis scored easily from 1st. 5-4 bravos. pat venditte threw 2 pitches. they did not show his warmup. robbie looks really good in the field today!

[4] Hey, that's how I like matzoh brei, too! Gulp. Somehow I find this disconcerting. But damn it's good. I think I'd better pick up a box of matzoh on the way home so I can cook some up tomorrow for breakfast.

[9] ooh, yes, that would be rather disconcerting for you! and thanks for letting me know how to spell "brei" - i was wondering! i'm having "breakfast" right now...

venditte is super cool. now, he just unleasehed a lefty sidearm pitch. he's not having a very productive inning though. not terrible, but not great. walk, sacrifices, earned run, a couple of decently hit balls. either way, this is very impressive!

[7] The next time you come to NY, you need to try phaal, which is a very spicy Indian curry (think vindaloo x 10). A restaurant here runs a contest to see if you can finish the entire thing. I was able to do it easily (I love the hottest of hot foods), but some of the people I was with couldn't tolerate even the smallest amount.

just like i saw when he was w/ detroit, "dancers groin rust" takes some, um, interesting routes to the ball in center. lotsa turning, turning back, cutting the other way, putting his head down, changing course, etc. yet, he still seems to find the ball. interesting.

[7][17] Funny I was gonna suggest the phaal too it's outrageous ... to us Americans ... to an ol' Indian lady I met there, she said it was no big deal ... if you finish one dish (even if you share!) Brick Lane will give you a free beer on East 6th Street just east of Second Avenue

For the record: the horseradish was freshly ground -- with a little kosher white vinegar added - had to buy it at a Hasdic grocery store. The Hasidim were buying the actual radish and grinding it at home. Maybe next year I'll do the same. Also - I like the taste.

At our family seder, we take the whole horseradish thing seriously. In fact, we take it way too far, to the point of staging a contest to see who can construct and down the most obnoxious Hillel sandwich possible. And that means putting an extreme amount of the white stuff (fresh ground, from The Pickle Guys) on it. Over the years this contest (waged only among the family's males) has reached the point where we're putting horseradish on everything, including the brisket. But I have to tell you... take a hard-boiled egg... take a bit off the top...sprinkle some black pepper on that sucker and top it off w/ some white horseradish. Heaven.

[22] You win a free beer and the option of having your picture posted on the restaurant's website. I never got around to sending them a photo.

[23] To be honest, I didn't think it was hot at all. In fact, it was very tasty and I would order it aside from the novelty. I've been eating very hot things since I was kid, so I probably have an unusual tolerance. Instead of Tabasco or Franks, I use 500,000-1,000,000 Scoville unit hot sauce, so I'm a bit of a psycho.

[30] yeah, i am. i mentioned either here or on the last post (tiger). word press has me re-enter my password all the time. half the time, it doesn't even work, and says to log in again. i guess word press is still in spring training mode...

i use Firefox. i haven't had to close any browsers, just refresh...

[31] the free beer is cool, though Indian beers like King Fisher, are usually too pale for me. yeah, i wouldn't do the picture, either...